February fanfic: Songfic

[pensnest]

Today's type is Songfic, whether it's a story that uses a song as a title, a starting point, inspiration, whatever.

I really like My Boyfriend's Back by withdiamonds, in which Chris and Lance are on again, and everybody else is hoping that this time, they'll get it right. The guys are recording, rather sporadically, and neither Chris nor Lance is quite brave enough to tell the other how they're feeling. Until they are.


My own is Collaboration, written for JM, Queen of Letterboys, for MTYG 2008. Which was awkward, in that I could not ask JM about the lyrics for the song JC and AJ wrote together, and so had to deduce what I could from some rather iffy YouTube recordings, but which was also great, because I knew she would notice the song lurking in the story.

Comments

[sperrywink]

Trickyfish is love!

I use song lyrics a lot.

[pensnest]

I find it very easy to be listening to a song and to devise a story based on a point in the story at which one of those characters sings the song. Songs are magic!

I recently toyed with the idea of suggesting a challenge in which participants would pick three random songs from their iTunes (or whatever) and write a story using those three songs in sequence, somehow. Could be interesting.

[sperrywink]

That might be a fun challenge! Might also produce some wackiness, but no harm in that. *g*

[pensnest]

The only trouble is, I don't think I have the reach to make it work as a challenge for more than, oh, two or three people, which'd be kind of a shame. I suppose there isn't a community for 'orphan' challenges anywhere?

[sperrywink]

I don't htink so. *g*

But on Dw there is fandomcalendar and other challenge promoting communities. That might help bring in the unknown masses.